once they have found out they'll swap to seal that hole and all the other gaps on the ship so that once it's partially raised to be able to pump out the water from the ship making it light enough to raise it more easily a very complex operation visibility in the water is very poor for the divers there's a lot of algae in the water at this time and so it's proving to be a drawn out process but one that is crucial for all those people waiting for answers a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played. they the flowers and candles are testament to the children those who drowned when the pleasure boat to bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. the ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into

a scene of horror and division focused desires of people who are basically buried alive in giant metal coffin we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old daughter i couldn't rescue her she swallowed too much water so when i was pulled out i realized my child was gone in the chaos to escape many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son in the strong current oil slick had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the d.j. for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape. and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw the proof to the sailor started pushing people living through it at that moment we've pushed me up on the surface.

and then i saw that the board was already underwater. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain his wife and child never made it out meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived at the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil fuel that was leaking from a sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up. the divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question the cost so much why did the bulgaria

sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an aging dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses people connected with the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management forced to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven ship had been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them portal thora to say they were lied to the ship was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people but was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty more tales of bound including a broken engine electricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued. and blocked emergency exits criminal

cases have been opened and arrests been made to the bulgaria sinking and more controversially into why two ships which reach the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person but reports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones while you're busy with other to get into and you will hold the passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the boats passers by in a different direction towards. the slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's place where a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most of voidable shipping

disasters tom bottom party. the captain of a ship who helped rescue seventy seven people from the sinking gary has been describing the horrific disaster scene in an interview with r.t. and you can see it in full in just over an hour from now or find it online right now on our website or to come there we have all the latest reports of the intense search and recovery operation since the tragedy happened and you can keep up to date there and while you're online remember to check out our huge ship channel for all our videos all the salvage mission. is complete.

the former c.e.o. of rupert murdoch's british newspaper operation has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking bribery rebecca brooks is the tenth person to be detained in connection with the scandal that's engulfed the defunct news of the world i mean russian was a former intelligence officer for five told me earlier that she believes the timing of this arrest raises a lot of questions i suppose one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one might think that the police by taking this step at this stage are allowing her a little wriggle room where she didn't have to say too much and perhaps also have to say too much about her links with the police or great service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing the amount of information that has emerged about the into the linkage between news international and the police i mean it's amazing the focus has tended to be on the journalists themselves and not on the allegedly corrupt police officers who have been receiving money to provide protected information and of course it's not just about the phone hacking scandal

there are other practices their peers have been implicated such as the technique known as pinging where you triangulate some of the location using a mobile phone now the only people who really have access to that sort of information would be vetted police officers working for counterterrorism branch office special branch or potentially of course the spies so where and when all this was going on is a very interesting question but it does show that there's a sort of endemic corruption and a failure of accountability and oversight as well within the police force. and emotion talking to be a little earlier on our team or rupert murdoch is trying to rescue news corp's crumbling reputation he spent the last forty eight hours apologizing for the phone hacking scandal with a full page newspaper averts while also meeting the family of a murdered teenager whose voicemail was intercepted on his reports is a watershed moment for the cozy relationship between britain's politicians and the press. but every media outlet in town t.v.

read you even the scary to when art imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shot at its owner rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand nine which the police have have since about two thousand and four two thousand and five and yet they promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they have not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. look sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic

allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the profits from. it into investing in the times and if you are for example or the guardian or the daily telegraph you would welcome it it's not just rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b. and the labor. party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead we should be. producing moderate damage. to the public good that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its shop teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own

government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is to water it as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right we possible can truly the media because of rupert murdoch he is beautiful man murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over a lot section of the case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for years nor and it. is still ahead this hour on r.t.

worries about debt default we examine why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial nightmare and what it might do to try to avoid it. and rev the square a four wheeled frenzy is high speed formula one super cars screeched through the center of moscow. the first a new round of nato airstrikes has rattled the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel gadhafi vowed never. to leave his country in the face of assaults by the alliance and the rebels this comes after the opposition became the legitimate authority in the country in the eyes of more nations the u.s. and more than thirty other states recognize them at a diplomatic meeting on friday saying they would deal with them until an interim government is in place recognition and contact group all maybe i'm also gives the rebels access to billions of dollars of gadhafi has frozen assets in your us banks but it's a commentator ted rule says the move is

a radical shift from the international standpoint. the united states usually doesn't extend diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in the capital that isn't in power and doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power anytime soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one thousand nine hundred six to two thousand and one civil conflict there between the taleban in the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and they enjoyed diplomatic relations with the west even though the taleban controlled ninety five percent of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing that it's a bizarre situation if the u.s. knows who these people are they're not seeing and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component of jihadi feedin around benghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s.

has an amazing habit of shipping skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands and that's not really going to happen. time is running out for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring debt deadline to lift the nation's fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling is looming ever closer as normally can struggle to find a compromise as to bombers urging democrats and republicans to ignore that the focus is to avert armageddon when you don't credit rating agencies say there's a risk the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively and even if the budget is approved fund managers say it's unlikely to solve the problem of america's debt. you know and the states already has been downgraded in the world markets every i'm not the only person who knows that the united states is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world look at the value of the u.s. dollar is down fairly significantly over the past few years they have to increase the debt ceiling for the moment there's no question about that their choice though

for the future is they've got to take an axe you know they've got to take a change so to government spending and do something about it they're not going to do that they might announce they're going to do it for this to get the budget ceiling passed but it's not going to have any effect everybody sees that washington is not going to solve this problem and more and more people are looking for something to replace the u.s. dollars. things are a little better i should say things are a little better in europe with this really now the focus of attempts to stop the euro zone from falling into oblivion realms approved a tough seventy billion euro cut package to avoid the need to ask for a bailout it's the euro zone's third largest economy to prove too big for its neighbors to save meanwhile eight out of ninety eight european banks have failed stress tests to see if they could survive another financial crisis what is your m.p. paul nuttall believes the latest developments prove the single currency union is

simply not working. this was always about politics it was not about economics the idea that you could have a commie in the mediterranean in line with economies like germany fast growing economies like germany was never going to work the only way to get out of this mess is for those countries to go back on to their national policies to devalue to get growth moving. once again exports going in at the moment they can't reduce their debt because they couldn't see these are controlled by frankfurt they're controlled by the european central bank they're not controlled by athens or lisbon or even top of the people out on the streets in athens and i just wonder how long it will be before the people who are out in the streets in rome and in lisbon and talk about this thing is contagious this thing will move right across the continent specifically in the mediterranean and the big issue now facing the european union is italy italy is the third largest economy in the euro zone of late largest economy in the world i think the euro zone can actually cope with greece and portugal the smaller economies but if italy goes the whole thing could cave in

because if italy goes italy's economy intertwined with spain's and of spain and italy go then we are in serious trouble. now let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the world in our world update this hour egypt's former president hosni mubarak has reportedly suffered a stroke and is in a coma according to his lawyers meanwhile the country's prime ministers began a major cabinet reshuffle after public protests demanding a political reform again flared up in the country the foreign minister has resigned while two new deputy prime ministers have been appointed the interim pm has been forced to make changes after widespread anger but little appears to have changed at the top since president mubarak was ousted i the u.s. led coalition has started handing over control of some of afghanistan's territories to local security forces the central region has become the first of several areas where that's to happen head of the end of nato combat operations in the country and twenty fourteen senior ministers and foreign ambassadors marked the event during

a visit to the problem. venezuelan president hugo chavez is back in cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy no more malignant cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a tumor from his pulpit region he's transferred some powers to his ministers jury in his absence but didn't agree to opposition calls for temporary handover of all presidential authority his battle with cancer has raised doubts over his fitness to lead the country but officially he still plans to run for election next year. even as first humanitarian delivery for somalia has dropped victims of crime just over a week since the aid ban in the country was lifted in the midst insurgents which rule large parts of somalia impose restrictions on foreign aid two years ago calling them anti muslim changed after more than ten million people became affected by the food crisis as a result of east africa's worst drought in decades. the

taliban has described the assassination of the afghan president's half brother as one of its biggest achievements in a decade head of kandahar's provincial council was gunned down by one of his bodyguards on tuesday and journalist valentine who's written extensively on the afghan war says the death is a blow to the u.s. led military effort. he was a power broker provided a lot of stability here at the heart which of course is one of the key provinces. a place where o.b.l. was growing where a lot of people that his absence will not affect the drug trafficking there is plenty of other people who are going to step in his absence has more into his role as a conduit to the taliban itself he was actually very political you or. the u.s. and the cia as somebody who could. represent their interests in negotiations

with the taliban and he was considered a very very tough negotiator for the united states he was someone who represented u.s. policy rather than. policy he said so this is a very big coup for the taliban they will have to deal with. with his hard line for all. american human rights activists according on their country to practice what it preaches when it comes to torture washington often condemns other countries for such methods yet campaigners say controversial u.s. army academies still training offices in brutal interrogation techniques can in forward met one torture survivor who's on a mission to get it closed. it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped oh be starved and electroshock tech there out east peace about all for having a quote subversive book. relives every day people have survived torture in

colonial times very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get told to for ten days does the stand there and then they get shot and kill many had been disappear after says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. and were trained right here on american soil at the school of the americas in fort benning georgia army major joints of blair was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas during the cold war era but major blair says he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country classified. army schools. use the words interrogate next door assassinate. commonly. get all the weights for graduates from the school of the americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere of the more than

sixty thousand soldiers and police to have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia has been the largest user of the school of the americas and i don't think it's an accident the. abuser of human rights and there were some for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but it did happen there's no question that our country not only negation torture itself but taught others how to do it we also rendered people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact tortured there although congress demanded more oversight of military training programs an internal investigation by the government accountability office. as showed that school of the americas manuals advocated using quote torture truth serum blackmail and execution the pentagon said it didn't know what the manuals contained because it staff advisors assigned to review them didn't speak spanish united nations special repertoire for torture one mendez

himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s. led to further abuse in the eighty's unfortunately. a military aid and police aid was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law or by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad the fact that there is an engagement with police bodies for example that do themselves extensively practice torture is an embarrassment and perhaps more than an embarrassment to the united states torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practices are enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time obey and by the cia when president bush says that he mortar board and he would do it again.

and he said damn right that he had ordered it. so you know it's a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as the myth of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector's even numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not only the person who so forth torture has to deal with the big wouldn't because of those on the torture it's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes and all of human beings but a society that supports torture is going to pay a price a very big prize as well killing ford r. t. washington d.c. . several last go streets were impossible sunday afternoon but not because of the notorious traffic jams they were sealed off to temporarily become the realm of the fast and the furious and a high octane performance formula one driver has burned some serious rubber against the amazing backdrop of the kremlin walls as you can see there is part of the

annual moscow city racing show featuring famous f one stars and the winners of world running championships the show helped keep spirits up even as the rain poured down cation of sunny intervals those you can see them rushing f one fans as the. getting excited as the country will get its own grown cream in three years time. well i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for you in just a few moments stay with us live here in the sky.

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today's top stories and the preview of the week from t.v. rescuers are preparing to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the volga river where it sank in a matter of minutes last sunday claiming around one hundred thirty. provide answers as to why the catastrophe. rupert murdoch's former c.e.o. in the u.k. is arrested as part of investigations into phone hacking and police bribery at the news of the world media mogul has repeated his apologies for ethical practices by the newspaper in an effort to save his crumbling reputation. libyan rebels now have full diplomatic recognition from washington and with its access to colonel

gadhafi has assets frozen in the u.s. meanwhile nato has intensified attacks in the capital tripoli in an effort to oust the libyan rebels never something. plus intercontinental cash crunch has america faces up to the possibility of default europe's debt crisis contagion piles more pressure on the euro the u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid financial disaster while italy is on the verge of leaving. well i'll be back with more on those stories more developments in this than thirty minutes from now the meantime an award winning documentary about one of the greatest environmental and human rights disasters in american history you can watch now part two of our special report on this. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home. and i it's not normal that's coming from an abandoned komondor it's come from sorry . i don't know. what to expect

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